Etika Joy-Con Shells Production and Sales Stopped After Nintendo Issued Cease-and Desist

Nintendo has stopped the production and sales of the Etika Joy-Con Shells by content creator CptnAlex with proceeds supposed to be donated to a mental health and suicide prevention charity.

The custom Joy-con shells were created in honor of Desmond Etika Amofah, who unfortunately took his own life last year. Over $10,000 has been raised by the end of 2019 and its proceeds donated to the JED Foundation.

First campaign was not successful.

Second campaign was successful.

Remaining stock of Joycons were for sale my Etsy since last year.

Nintendo sent me a cease and desist at the end of September.

Here’s a picture of me with a bin of all the shells I can’t sell anymore pic.twitter.com/ytdWzObh9x

— CptnAlex (@Cptn_Alex) December 7, 2020

By December 7, 2020, Youtube channel JoyConBoyz uploaded a video titled Nintendo hates us. This is where CptnAlex revealed that Nintendo has sent him a cease-and-desist way back in September 2020. This was due to the custom shells that had the Joy-Con logo and phrase. JoyConBoyz also reported that the video he uploaded now had a copyright claim against it courtesy of Nintendo.

CptnAlex did state that he plans to bring back to Joy-Cons again but this time with design changes. Hopefully he can sell those now without any issues from Nintendo.

Source: VGC